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EB,
Absolutely no offense taken. When I post something like this mag in a basicly conservative old time Pentecostal forum I know that the different sensibilities involved will be apparent.
If you don't like that pic you certainly would not like CC on a Sunday. We have folks from all sorts of backgrounds and lifestyles attending church.
For most of them a woman's shoulders or even back exposed is not a matter of morality. This kind of goes back to the "hyper sensitivity" I think many OP's develop from being in such a closed culture with such a stringent dress code.
In other words seeing a pic of women or seeing them in person dressed that way doesn't give me pause. I don't even think about it where to someone with an extremely conservative dress code it would leap out at them as a violation of that dress code and what they consider modest.
Have I seen women at CC cross the line where I am comfortable? Every great once in a while but I don't have any idea if they are a visitor, etc so I am not going to judge them.
My wife wears sleeveless dresses to church in the warmer months and we don't think anything about it. I have never been much of a bicep and shoulder man anyway!!!
As far as the dress offending Muslims we may be trying to witness to I would suggest that nothing short of the women wearing burkha's would please many of them.
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